On Sunday, Coastal Protection Day, a coordinated rally “No to Alluvium!” was held in Sestroretsk’s Dubki Park. Up to 500 residents of Sestroretsk gathered to oppose the “New Coast” project, within the framework of which they want to wash almost five square kilometers of land along the coast of the Kurortny district.

Alexei Voevodin, sentenced last year to life imprisonment for organizing a gang and participating in several murders, has not yet been sent to prison. All this time, he bombards law enforcement agencies with letters in which he either “fights extremism” in the media or admits to new murders. As a result, investigators are forced to start new investigations, and until their completion, Voevodin remains in St. Petersburg.

Irina Levinskaya and Valentina Uzunova, experts from the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, explain the meaning of the phraseological unit “God’s shit,” with which the Pussy Riot members “emotionally expressed their negative attitude towards the fact that the Moscow Patriarchate has entered into a close alliance with the political authorities.” St. Petersburg scientists have contributed to the defense of Pussy Riot.

St. Petersburg artist Pyotr Pavlensky spoke in support of the punk band Pussy Riot. The young man sewed up his mouth with thick threads and went out onto Nevsky Prospekt to the Kazan Cathedral, where he stood with a poster for two hours on July 23. Thus, he demonstrated the ban on publicity, tightening censorship and suppression of open expression in contemporary art. Neither the temple security nor the police touched him. In addition, you cannot punish for a single picket.

The protracted economic crisis of their native country is not the only worry for modern Greeks. Some, for example, are very concerned about future construction near our Oktyabrsky Concert Hall. And so much so that it creates the need to present your concerns personally to the governor of the northern capital of Russia.